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t cln y 1 -potlt:derA. Another Nand, called Island n supplied -.vith six pieces of bat tering cann: , u (12-pounders), and lour mortars. Be h.cse two islands, a battery had been raised, in force to that of the island Montebello, and in like manner bearing upon Enzetsdorf. These 62 pieces of battering artillery had the same °hied, wero in two hours to destroy the little town of En zerd-tf, drive a,vav the enemy, and demolish the works. On the right, the Island Alexander, with four mortars, two ten pounders, and twelve six pounders (battering cannon) were to bear upon the plain, and proted the operations of the bridges. " On the 2d the Duke Do Rivoli, passed over to the Mill Island with 500 Voltigetirq, and took possession of it. This Island was also furnished with cannon. It was joined to the Continent, on the left side, by a small bridge. In tine front a little fleche was raised, and this redoubt was called Petit. In the evening the redoubts of Essling appeared to' be jealous of these, works : not doubting that they were first battery, formed to as a i ;dinit thcmselves, they fired upon them with great activity. This was precisely the intention in having seized this island.— The attention of the enemy WAS to be drawn to this point, in order to conceal from him the operations really proposed. Passage-across the arm cf the Danube to tits hand fobatz. " On the 4th, at 10 m the evening, Gen. Oudinot caused 1500 voltigeurs to be embarked on the great arm of the Danube, commanded by Gen. Conroux. Colonel Baste, with I 0 gun -boats, convoyed them, and disembarked them beyond the little arm of the Island Lobau, in the Danube. The batteries of the enemy were soon silenced, and he was driven from the woods to the village of Muhleuten. " At eleven in the evening, the batteries raised against Euzersdorf 'received orders to begin their firing. The howitzers set this unfortunate little town on fire, and in less tha❑ half an hour the ene mies batteries had ceased to operate., " The Chief of Battalion - DessaleS, • .Direaor of the Bridges, and , Engineer of. the Marine. had prepared in the Island Alexander, a bridge of 60 toises, of a single piece, and five great ferry boats. " Col. St. Croix, Aide-du-Camp of the Duke de Rivoli, ernbarl;ed In bivges whit 2,500 wen, and landed on the left bank. " The bridge of :! single piece, the first of the kind which has hitherto been made, was fixed in less than five minutes, and the infantry passed over it with great rapidity. Capt. Bazelle fixed a bridge of boats in an hour and a half. Capt. Payerimode formed a bridge of rafts in two hours. " Thus, at two o'clock in the morning,,the army had four bridges, and had debouched on the left 1500 toises below Enzersdorf protei.aed by the bat teries, and the right upon Vittau. The corps of the Duke of R;voli formed the left ; that of Count ou dinot, the centre; an:! that of the Duke of Auer sti I', the right ; the corps of the Prince de Petite Oorvo, the Viceroy, and the Duke of Ragusa, the guard ; and the cuirassiers formed the. second line, and the bodies of reserve. Utter darkness, a violent storm, and rain, which fell in torrents, rendered this right as frightful, as it was propitious to the French army, and was about to be glorious to it. " On the sth, at day-break, every one perceived what had been the proje& of the Emperor, who was with his whole army, arranged_ in order of battle at the extremity of the enemy's :left, having turned all his entrenched camps, having rendered his works useless, and thus obliging the Austrians to abandon their positions, and come and otter him battle on the spot that was convenient to him. The great problem was thus resolved, and without pass ing the Danube on other points--,-without receiving any proteetion from the works he bad raided, he forced the enemy to fight three quarters of a league from his redoubts. From that moment the greatest and happiest results were presaged. " At eight in the morning, the batteries-which had played upori Enzersdorf.hrid produced such an etfe&, that the enemy was obliged to let that town be oc cupied by no more titan four battalions. The Duke of Rivoli dispatched his first Aide-de-Camp Sainte Croix, against it, who did not meet with a great re bistance, and took prisoners all who remained in it. " Count Oudinot surrounded. the Castle of each•. sengang, whiell the, enemy had fortified, forced . 9oo men who defended it to capitnlate, and wok 12 • pieces of cannon, "The Emperor then caused the whole airily to spread itselt along the immense plain of Enzersdorf, BATTLE OF ENZERSDORF, c , In the mean while, the enemy, confounded in all leis projects, gradually recovered from his asto tiisholent, and endeavoured to gain some . advantages in t ltis new 4eld of battle. For this Purposele de , tached seiwaj c. 'limns of 'infantry, a considerable warnber of pieces of artillery, and all his 'cavalry, as *ell of the line as the new levies, in order - to at tempt to nut-flank the sight of the French army.— Iu consequence,he occupied the village of Itutzen dont'. The E•operor ordered General Oudinot to carry this village, to the right of which he sent the Duke of Auerstadt, in order to proceed to the head•• quarters of Prince Charles, going always from the rightto the left. " From noon till nine in the evening the French armies manceuvered on this immense plain.. All the villages were occupied, and when the French. had reached the heights of the entrenched camps of the enemy, they-fell of their own accord, and as if *by enchantment. The Duke de Rivoli caused them to be , occupied without resistance. It was thus we seized the works of Essling and Gros-Aspern, and the labour of 40 days was of no use to the enemy. Ha made some resistance in the village of Rasch dud, which the Prince de Ponte Corvo caused to be attacked and carried by the Saxons. The enemy was every where overwhelmed by the superiority of our fire. This immense field of battle was covered with his remains. BATTLE OF WAGRAM. " Strongly alarmed by the progress of the French arrny, and the great successes which it obtained, with scarcely any effort, the enemy put all his troops in motion, and at six in the evening he occupied the following position :—his right from Stadelau to Ge rasdorf, his centre from Gerasdorf to Wagram, aad his left from Wagram to Neusiedel. The French army had its left at Gros-Aspern, its centre at Raschdorf, and its right at Glenziudorf. In this position, the day was nearly at a close, and we had necessarily to expel a great battle on the morrow ; but this was to be avoided, and the position of the enemy to be intersected, so as to prevent him from forming any plan, by taking possession, in the night, of the village of Wagrani. Fa this case his line, al_ ready of an immense length, being suddenly assail-. ed, and exposed to the chances of combat, the dif ferent bodies of his army would be dispersed with out order or direction, and we should succeed at an easy rate, and without any serious engagement.-- a - The attack on Wagraw took place, and our. troop took possession of the village; but . a column of Saxons altd a column of French mistook each other in the dark for enemies, and this operation failed. " We then prepared fOr the battle of Wagram. It appears that the dispositions of the French Gene ral and the Austrian General were inverted. The Emperor passed the night in accumulating his forces towards his centre, where he was in person, within cannon shot of Wagram. With this view, the - Duke de Rivoli moved upon the left of Anclerklau. leat:.; ; ;; at Aspern a single division, with orders for it. to tall back, in case of necessity, upon the Island of Lobau. The Duke of Auerstadt received orders to leave un occupied the village of Grosshoffen that night, to approach the centre. The Austrian General, on the contrary, weakened his centre, to secure and aug ment his extremities, which he still farther 'ex tended. " On the 6th, at day-break, the Prince de Ponte Corvo occupied the left, having the Duke of Rivoli in a second line. The Viceroy conneeled him with the centre, wbere the corps of Count o.2dinot, that , of the Duke of Ragusa, those of the Imperial Guards, and the divisions of cuirassiers formed se ven or eight lines. " The Duke of Auerstadt marched rrotn the right to reach the centre. The enemy. on the contrary, put Bellegarde'3 corps motion for Sladelau. The corps of Collowrath, Lichtenstein, and Hiller, con fleeted their right with the position of Wagram, where Prince Hohenzollern 'was, and with the ex tremity of the left at Neusiedel, where the corps of Rosenberg debouched in order alsm, to out-flank that of the Duke of Auerstadt. The corpQ of R,osenberg, , ,• end that of the Duke of Anerstadt, moving in oppo- shedireaions, encountered each other, with the first rays of the sun, and gave the signal of battle.— The-Emperor instantly repaired to this point, or2er ed the Duke 'of Auerstadt to be reinforced by Out di 'vision of the Duke of Padua's Cuirassiers, and the corps of Rosenberg to be attacked in flank by a bat tery of guns ; of the division of Coutr de Nan gouty. In less than three quaKters of an hour, the fine corps of the Duke Of Auerstadt gave a, good ac count of the corps of Rosenberg, defeating it, and driving it beyond Neusiedel with considerable loss. " In the mean time, a cannonade commenced along the whole of the line, and the enemy's ciis- . 'positions were every moment discovering thems4ves. The whole of his left was secured with artillery.— One might have said, that the Austrian General was•not fighting for viciory, but Was locking only ‘• to the means of improving" it. This disposition of the enemy seemed so abstaxl, that settle snare was apprehended, and the Emperor delayed some time before he orderel those easy di.spsitsitions which he bad to make to disconcert' those of the enemy, and, render them fatal to him. He ordered the Dui;e of Rivoli to make an attack on the - village occupied by the enemy, _and ..which somewhat Istra4.led the extremity of the Ventre of the z:my. lie ordered the ruke of Anerstult to turn the position of Neu siedel, and thence to push on upon Wagram ; and he formed the Duke of Ragusa's troops, and those of General Macdonald in column; to carry Wagram at the moment the Duke of Auerstatit should debauch. " While these proceedings were taking place, in formation was received that the enemy was making a furious attack upon the village carried by the Duke of Rivo ; that our left was out flanked by 3000 toises, that a brisk cannonade was already heard at Gros.Aspern, and that the space between Gros-As pern and Wagram seemed to be covered with an immense line of artillery. There was no longer any room for doubt. The enemy had committed an enormous fault, and we had only to profit by it. The Emperor instantly ordered General Macdonald to form the divisions of Broussier and Lamarque in columns of attack. lie ordered the division of Nansouty to be supported by the horse-guards, and a battery of Go guns belonging to the guards, and 40 of different other corps. General Count Lauriston, at the head of his battery of 100 pieces of artillery, marched at a trot against the enemy, advanced with out firing to within half gun-shot distance, and there opened a prodigious fire, which silenced that of the enemy, and spread death among his rankS. Gene ral Macdonald then advanced at the pas de charge. The General of Division Reille, with the brigade of fusiliers and sharp-shooters of the guards; sup ported General Macdonald. The guards made a change of front, in . order to render this attack in fallible. In an instant the enemy's centre lost a league of ground ; his right became alarmed, and perceiving the dangerous position in which it was placed, rapidly fell back. The Duke of Rivoli, at this moment, attacked it in &Ont. Whilst the rout of the centre struck consternation into the right of .the enemy, and precipitated its movements, the, left was attacked and out-flanked by the Duke of Auers tadt, who had carried Neusiedel, and who having gained the elevated plain, was marching upon Wagram. The' divisions of Broussier and Gudin covered themselves with glary. . " it was only then ten (;:clock in the morning ; and those who .had the least penetration saw that the fate of the -day. was decided, and that the•vietory was ours. " At noon, Count Oudinot marched upon Wa. gram, taassist the attack of the Doke of Aberstadt. He•was successful, and carried that important posi tion. After ten o'clock, the enemy fought only . to effect his retreat ; at twelve this was manifest ; it was conducted in disorder ; long before dark, the 'en9tny was out of sight. Our left was posted at Jetelsee and Ebersdorf; our centre upon Obersdorf, arid the cavalry of our right extended their posts as f ar as Shonkirchen. " On the 7th, at day-Lreak, the army was in mo tion, and marching upon Kornenbourg and Walters dorf, and had . some posts near Nicolsbourg. The enemy, cut off from Hungary and Moravia, had been forced to fall bal( upon Bohemia. " Such is the narrative of the battle of Wagram, a battle decisive and ever memorable, in which. from. three to tour hundred thousand men, and 'from, twelve 'to fifteen hundred pieces of cannon, con tended for great interests, upon a field of battle,, sullied, planned, and fortified by the enemy for several months. • Ten pair of colours, 40 pieces of cannon, 20,000 prisoners, including between 3 and 400 Officers, and a considerable number of Ge nerals, Colonels, and Majors, are the trophies of this victory. The fields of battle are covered with the slain ; among whom are the bodies of several Generals, and among others, one called Norman, 'a Frenchmau, a traitor to his country, w'ho prosti tuted his talents against her. " All the enemy's wounded have fallen into our hands. Thoe whom he abandoned at the com mencement of the action, were found in the adja cent villages. It may be calculated that the result of this battle, will be that of reducing the Austrian army to less than 60,00 n men. " Our loss has been considerable it is estimated at 1500 in killed, and from 3 to 4000, wounded. The" Duke of Istria, at the moment when he was preparing for an attack with the cavalry, had, his horse shot dead by a cannon ball, which 'fell upon his saddle, and slightly grazed his thigh. The General of Division, Lasalle, was killed by a musket - ball. He was an Of of the greatest merit, and one of our best light cavalry Generals. " The Bavarian, General Wrede, and Generals Seras, Grenier, VignoliF, sahuc, Frere, and De-, (ranee, were wounded. • Colonel Prince Aldobt;ndini was wounded in the arm by a musket ball; the Majors of the Guard, Dausmenil and. carbeneau, wete also wounded; the Adjutant Commandant, Duprat, was killed; the Colonel of the gth Infantry of the 'line fell on the field of battle. That regiment has covered it self. with glory. cc The Officers of the Staff are, preparing a return . of our losses, "" A particular circumstance incident to this grand battle i,s, that the columns nearest to Vienna were only about int) toises from it. The numerous po pulation of that capital covered the turrets, the stee ples, the roofs of houses, and every elevated situa tion.o .witness this pedncle. " The Emperor of Austria left Wolkersdorf or. the 6tb,' at five in the morning, and ascended a tower, from which he had a view of the field cf bat tle, and where he remained until midnight. He theme set off in all haste. c' The French head-quarters were transferred to Wolkersdorf, on the morning of the 7th." TWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN. WOLKERSDORE, JULY g.—The enemy's retreat is a defeat. We have collected a part of his baggage. His wounded have fallen into our hands ; we have already daunted more than 19,000 ; all the villages are filled with them. In five or six hospitals alone we have found more than 6000. " The Duke de Rivoli, pursuing the enemy by Stokerau, is already arrived at Hollabrunn. " The Duke de Ragusa had at first followed on the road to Brunn, which he quitted at Wulfersdurf, in order to take that of Znaim. At nine o'clock this morning he met at Laa a rear-guard, which he rout ed : he took I 00, of them prisoners. He will be to-morrow at Znailn. " The Duke of Auerstadt is arrived to-day at Ni- colsbourg. " The Emperor of Austria, Prince Anthony, with a suite of about 200 chariots, coaches, and other carriages, slept on the- 6th at Erensbrunn, the 7th at Hollabrunn, the Bth at Znaim, whence they set out at nine of the morning. According to the re lation of the country people who. concluded them, their dejthion was extreme. " One of the Pi inces de Mohan was found wound, ed on the field of battle. Lieut. Field-Marshal Wusi sakowic; is among the risoners. " The artillery of the guard covered . itself with glory. Major Aboville who commanded was, wound! ed. - The Emperor has. made him General of Brigade. The Chief of a squadron of artillery, Grinner, has font an arm. These intrepid artillerymen diiplayed . all the power of this terrible weapon. " The horse chasseurs of the guard charged, and drove back on the day of the battle of Wagram, three squares of infantry. They took four pieces of: cannon. The light-horse Poles of the guard charg. ed a regiment of pikemen. They. took the Pi ince of AuerspeTz pri.s.otier, and capturtd two pieces cf. cannon. " The Saxon Hussar.s. d'Allwt charged the kassiors d'Albert, and took their colours. It was a eery singular thing to see two regiments belonging to the same Colonel fighting one against the other. "It 43.1)cars that the enemy is abandoning Moravia and Hungary,, and is retiring into Bohemia. " The roads are covered with the men belonging to the Landwehr and the leve en passe, who arc returning to their houses. " The losses whiCh desertion is adding, to, those the eherny has sustained in . 'killed, wounded, 20 prisoners, are concurring to annihilate his army. The numerous le'ters which have been inter-. cepted are a , stril4ing picture of the discontent of the . hostile army, and the disorder which, reigns in. it. " Now that the,. Austrian Monarchy is without hop; it would evince being ill acquainted with the character of those who govern it, not to. expea that they will humiliate themselves as they did after th 9 battle of Austerlit4. At that epoch, they were, as now, without hope, and they exhausted all their protestations and oaths. During the day of the Qth, tlic enemy sent a few hundred men to the right bank of the Danube to make observations. They re , embarked, after hay ing lost a' few men killed or taken prisoneri. 't The beat was excessive on these days. The thermometer was almost constantly at 26 degrees. " There are great quantities of wine. In one village 3,000,000 pints were found. It has happily no bad quality. " Twelve of the most, considerable villages in the beautiful plain of Vienna, such as are 'een in the neighbourhood of a great capital, have been burnt during the battle. The just hatred of the nation is loud against the guilty men who have drawn upon it all these calamities. The General of Brigade, Laroche, entered Nu., remberg on the 28th of June, with a 'corps of ca valry, and proceeded %to Bayreuth. He met the enemy at Besentheim,• 'charged him with ,the first -‘ provisional regiment of dragoons, and cut in pieces ' all who opposed him, and took two piece, of cannon." NAPLES, JUNE 30.--The. English unfortunately have not disein,barked. After taking the Wands Ischia and Po.7idit, with the exception of the CaStle• wiliCh still liblds out, they have in part gone off. - They probahly have the intention of disturbing all Italy, and of 'endeavouring to excite 'trouble, but they will disgracefully fail in their design. MAILS. AR R IVID-1 Waterford. Du E—2 Gottenburgh, z Lisbonf •i Waterford. ' U